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Title: Condensed catalogue of specialties, novelties and special offers in choice, new and rare bulbs, plants, seeds and fruits
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Commercial catalogs Seeds Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs Seeds Catalogs Flowers Catalogs Fruit trees Catalogs John Lewis Childs (Firm) Commercial catalogs Nurseries (Horticulture) Seeds Flowers Fruit trees
Publisher: Floral Park, N.Y. : John Lewis Childs
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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cheap in every sense of the word; anil he who sows them has BO right tocomplain at their poor quality. They cannot possibly be anything else. Seed of high quality can he producedonly by thorough, careful, painstaking and expensive methods. We do not otfer our customers the ordinarycommercial grades of seed. Our stocks are special strains of special varieties bred up to the highest mark:of perfection and selected with great care, and for this reason we grow and offer but a limited number oivarieties, only those which are of the greatest merit and sure to give satisfaction everywhere. The verybest varieties, bred up to an unequalled mark of perfection, has made our seeds famous the world over. nniATA f We wil1 give TH^EE packets of any ONE kind for the sum thatPR IP r\ 1 < TWO packets would cost. For instance, any one variety listed forniUlaO i j 5c, three packets of it may be had for 10c. Any one 10c. pkt., threo~* Ipkts. may be had for 20c; three pkts. of a 15c. sort for 30c, etc.
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AntirrbiiMint, Guipt Scerjted, OR SXA lVRA G ON. A new giant-flowered strain of the grand old Snap-dragon, which in size and beauty of bloom, either in potsor garden, almost equals Gladiolus. Per pkt. Ciant White This remarkable new plant, has jumpedinto foremost place among choice winter-bloomers.No novelty in our greenhouses has attracted the atten-tion or received praise equal to this. It, is a perpetualbloomer, compact and branching in habit, sending upflower spikes by the dozen, one to two feet in length,almost as large as and more beautiful than Gladiolus,folor, pure white, with lemon-tinted throat, and of alovely fragrance. Flowers keep two weeks nfter beingcut. It has created a sensation in the New York flower market 10 Clant Yellow—Exactly like the above except in color. which is a beautiful canary yjllow 10 Ciant Crimson-Largest of all. Exceedingly fine 10 Clant Mixed—Many colors, including the above, all largeand exceedingly fragrant. Try them, both in gardenand pots 10

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